MS: I am currently wearing Focus Night&Day in the Left Eye, and Purevision Toric in the Right Eye. I am myopic and presbyopic (56 years old), the right...

07-13-2008 07:09 PM

toddster63: At 45 years old, I just recently started with vision correction-- multifocal soft contact lenses. I have taken to them like a duck to water, with...

02-11-2008 04:23 AM

xikom03@yeah.net: If you have an astigmatism it doesn't mean that you are stuck with wearing glasses. These days there are special contact lenses, called "toric",...

01-31-2008 12:54 PM

The Real Bev: My opththalmologist also fits contacts, so she said she'd look at my corneas. Average thickness, but most of my astigmatism comes from elsewhere...

11-05-2007 05:37 AM

usaidabad@yahoo.com: I had lasik correction in early August at a LasikPlus office in Minneapolis. After the surgery, my left eye was fine but my right eye had some...

10-26-2007 02:02 AM

Nina: I am wearing glasses for 10 years and now I would like to wear soft lenses. My eyeglass prescription is VOD sa -1.75 = sa -0.50 dcyl ax 170 =...

08-22-2007 06:12 PM

edutital100@yahoo.com: Hello... My eye exam 3 years ago, resulted in this lens prescription: OD: -0.75 SPH (+1.25 ADD) OS: -0.50 SPH (+1.25 ADD) Last year,...

08-07-2007 02:29 AM

Philippa: Hi I have a small amount of astigmatism (-0.25) in one eye which I understand is very small. I wear contacts so given that -0.25 small I was...

07-23-2007 06:35 AM

Paula Sims: Hello all, It's been a while since I've worn contacts but now due to various reasons I'm going to be getting involved in sports and need to go back...

06-09-2007 04:29 PM

Doug Herr: My wife wears non-toric contact lenses. Her RX is: -6.00 -1.00 x087 -6.00 -0.75 x106 They did tell her that the astigmatism in each eye is...

05-24-2007 04:09 AM

Sandy: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00712_29.x?cookieSet=1 321-09 Fixing the eye - iVis approach Alessio G, La...

04-26-2007 04:00 PM

The Real Bev: My mom just told me that as her cataracts became worse, lights became elongated. Her quack told her that cataracts always caused that. Given that...

04-04-2007 06:38 AM

capnspalding8@yahoo.com: I will try to get an answer for a legitimant question so maybe once this year,something acually useful might appear in this sewage dump despite the...

02-27-2007 04:46 AM

Katy via MedKB.com: I read that dependent on the angle of the astigmatism the same amount can be worse in two people. Which is the worst angle? I've had -0.50 at...

12-27-2006 06:22 PM

pershing: Is it true that when calculating the error of an eye, it is ok to say that an astigmatism of -0.75 + myopia of -0.25 would be equivalent to an...

12-23-2006 04:15 AM

Charles: I've got my RGP's dialed in pretty well. The doc "maxed out" the diameter and the OZ and fixed most of the trouble I was having with night vision...

10-25-2006 02:16 PM

Phil via MedKB.com: When does astigmatism cause visual disturbance? I've heard people say that even 0.75 is nothing really so when does it interfere in a significant...

10-17-2006 04:08 AM

southeasteyecare@hotmail.com: See abstract below originally posted by ACE on amount of induced astigmatism across LASIK platforms. Excerpt from the results section: Of the...

10-07-2006 08:30 PM

Ace: PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the surgically induced astigmatism in myopic eyes undergoing conventional and wavefront-guided LASIK. METHODS A...

10-05-2006 01:13 AM

concerned parent via MedKB.com: How bad does a person's astigmatism have to be to need toric contact lenses? Someone told me it would be around a 1.25, is that true? -- Message...

09-03-2006 03:51 AM